Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any machine-labor or manual labor employed in the production of ordnance.
- noun The labor of inspecting or designing ordnance, or of making calculations or reports upon ordnance or ordnance subjects: as, an officer detailed upon gun-work exclusively.
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Examples
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The iron is too brittle for gun-work; it would be liable to break.
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If they did anything, it must be quick, and their gun-work must be accurate.
XVIII. Book Five: “Bidding the Eagles of the West Fly On 1922
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But from these few he learned what he wished to know, and he was glad that Hopalong Cassidy was where he had always been, and that his gun-work had improved rather than depreciated with the passing of time.
Bar-20 Days Clarence Edward Mulford 1919
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If they did anything, it must be quick, and their gun-work must be accurate.
One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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I always try to be of assistance to predatory genius; there are clever crooks and stupid ones; the kind who stoop to vulgar gun-work when their own stupidity gets them into a tight pinch don't appeal to me.
The Madness of May Meredith Nicholson 1906
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There's going to be a whole lot of gun-work before you're many days older.
Flower of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Then we would do anything else that needed to be done, like wire-work or gun-work.
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